Street photography is about a moment; a slice of unscripted life. It’s about getting in close and getting the shot. Join Zack Arias, an editorial and commercial photographer, on the streets of New York where he shares his tips and techniques for blending into the scene and candidly capturing the people and places around you. Even if street photography is not your thing, you can transfer the techniques and philosophy of street photography into any other genre of photography.

Zack Arias is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Atlanta, GA. Zack has been working in the music industry for the past seven years. He is now branching into editorial work and advertising. His style and approach is simple, straightforward, bold, classic, true, and straight from camera.
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Zack is a very hard working and good teacher. I participated in one of his Dubai workshops last year and was so happy to experience his lessons. Of course there were also other very good teachers during the Photos Plus event in Dubai; it is an event that I can recommend to everybody. Thanks for the course Zack and I bought also the X100T indeed an amazing camera.

Entertaining video, but not much more to it. Zack tells us in the beginning that he doesn’t want to use a tele because he don’t want to sneak up on people. The rest of the video is just full of that: sneaking up on people! I agree with commenter Gerry Slater that for real street photography class, you turn to the master Jay Maisel (or World Press Photo winner Jerry Lampen from the Netherlands, dear Scott Kelby, get this guy in here), and before you hit the pavement, screw on that 70-300! I love you Zack, but just not this particular video…

Thanks to Zack Arias and all team of production for this great street photography workshop. I’ve learning new techniques from Zack. And now I will practice all I’ve learned in my city (Seville – Spain). Thank you very much —- Yes, please post my feedback

Wonderful course. As a street photographer myself, I loved Zack’s take on the hole genre. It was nice to get a fresh perspective on different techniques that I took away to help spice up my own street photography. —- Yes, please post my feedback

Brilliant Zack – love this course. It’s worth watching just for that “don’t mind me, I’m just shooting the roof tops and looking at my random shot afterwards on the camera monitor..” technique. I used that so many times on a subsequent trip out to Lithuania – got some great candid shots of folk sitting next to me in cafe’s, and around the streets of Vilnius using that one – and I was carrying a 4lb 35mm camera+lens combo and it still worked —- Yes, please post my feedback

Zack Arias is a skilled photographer, but admittedly his experience has been indoors in controlled environments. I found this video entertaining mainly becasue Zack is such a nice guy, but for learning, I suggest Scott’s interviews on the street with Jay Maisel both in Paris and NYC. Jay was doing street photography before Zack was born, and his insights were transformative for me. And Jay uses a Nikon D4 with an 18-300mm lens!!

Street photography interests me because it is a way to clear the cobwebs of your mind, I would like to see a course on basics, emphasizing legal issues, marketing possibilities, and other issues outside of techniques.
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I LOVED how this course was filmed. Don’t know if you got a new cameraman or two, but although this lesson was completely out of my purview, it was fun, creative, and got me thinking about how camera angle and wide lenses can be used thematically. Excellent job, great editing, and hope you’ll shoot more like this in the future. —- Yes, please post my feedback

Great video . I have been interested in street photograph just for the reason of reason of photographing people and poses, I love the techniques he uses in being stealth and under the radar. —- Yes, please post my feedback

Thank you, Zack! This was a revelation for me to learn about the Fuji camera as an alternative to the DSLR for street photography — I’ve also felt like my DSLR is getting in my way when I’m shooting on the streets. Thank you to Zack and Kelby Training for an overall outstanding course full of practical and fun tips! —- Yes, please post my feedback

I really enjoyed watching this course! Zack shares his great techniques that are subtle and effective for getting the shots we’ve always dreamed of getting! A cool course from a cool guy. —- Yes, please post my feedback

This was a lot of fun . It was fun to watch Zack go about the city dressed as he was and making images….I have used all the techniques that Zack teaches here with great success . Trust what Zack tells you here…these techniques work . One thing I might add is if someone says…did you just take my picture….I will identify myself and tell them why I made the image…most of the time people are OK with that but sometimes they may not be…I recommend to offer that you will delete the image…really no reason to make someone mad and get your butt whooped. Be smart out there

Zack , don’t think about being an old man perv taking images of children.I know you are not…you know you are not..Cartier -Bresson made great street images of children…yes we live in a different time but that does not stop me from making images of children interacting with their environment . Again if someone asks why you are taking pictures of their kid…tell them your story and offer them a copy of the image with their child…works for me…and usually they are very thankful for a great image.

I am not a sales rep for Nikon…but I use the nikon 1 V1 which makes apsolutely no noise when set to electronic shutter…I get really close using the 10mm 2.8 and people are not aware that I am photographing them…plus another point …people are so not focused on the moment…talking on their cell phones and texting….they do not even notice you.

Great stuff! I’ve been really attracted to the rawness of street but my dslr gets me busted all the time. So many great tips in this class that I can’t wait to try on my next outing. Thanks! —- Yes, please post my feedback